#314 – Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk
Lex Fridman Podcast
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4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 221 minutes
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Liv Boeree is a poker champion and science educator on topics of game theory, physics, complexity, and life. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Liv’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/liv_boeree
Liv’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/liv_boeree
Liv’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/livboeree
Liv’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/LivBoeree
Books and resources mentioned:
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Meditations on Moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:23) – Poker and game theory
(13:26) – Dating optimally
(18:18) – Learning
(26:30) – Daniel Negreanu
(31:38) – Phil Hellmuth
(34:11) – Greatest poker player ever
(38:29) – Bluffing
(48:50) – Losing
(58:05) – Mutually assured destruction
(1:03:00) – Simulation hypothesis
(1:19:38) – Moloch
(1:48:50) – Beauty
(2:00:58) – Quantifying life
(2:21:08) – Existential risks
(2:39:31) – AI
(2:49:22) – Energy healing
(2:56:32) – Astrophysics
(2:59:26) – Aliens
(3:25:08) – Advice for young people
(3:27:13) – Music
(3:35:02) – Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Liv Burry, formerly one of the best poker players |
| 0:05.0 | in the world trained as a natural physicist and is now a philanthropist and an educator |
| 0:11.7 | on topics of game theory, physics, complexity, and life. |
| 0:16.7 | And now onto the full ad reads. |
| 0:18.6 | As always, no ads in the middle. |
| 0:19.8 | I tried to make this interesting, but if you skipped them, please still check out our |
| 0:23.4 | sponsors I enjoy this stuff. |
| 0:25.6 | Maybe you will too. |
| 0:27.7 | I just forgot audible. |
| 0:29.7 | It's an audiobook service that gives me thousands of hours. |
| 0:33.3 | I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that of educational material. |
| 0:36.9 | I've been running every single day almost with no exception, at least eight miles. |
| 0:42.5 | That's often anywhere from one to two and a half hours depending on the distance I'm |
| 0:47.1 | doing. |
| 0:48.6 | And my trusted companion through that is either brown noise, which I just listened to YouTube |
| 0:54.5 | videos or brown noise. |
| 0:56.2 | If I'm not listening to brown noise when I'm running and focusing on my thoughts, I am |
| 1:00.2 | listening to audiobooks. |
| 1:02.1 | And that's usually the source of fun, the source of intense thinking for me, exploration, |
| 1:08.1 | it's a journey into another world, into another time. |
| 1:12.2 | And an audiobook reading of a book can really take you to that place. |
| 1:17.8 | It can really transport you there. |
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